You know, everyone’s always rushing these days. Like, non-stop. Go, go, go. I got caught up in that big time a while back. Everything felt like it needed to happen yesterday.
Then things kinda hit a wall. A project I was pouring everything into got stalled. Indefinitely. No clear reason, just stopped. And around the same time, some personal stuff meant I had a lot of waiting to do. Just… waiting. It drove me nuts at first. Felt totally powerless, stuck, you know?
I remember walking near this local pond quite a bit then, trying to clear my head. Saw this heron there. Stood perfectly still for ages. Just watching the water. Didn’t move a muscle. Then bam, quick strike, got a fish. Flew off. Simple as that.
Trying Something Different
Watching that bird got me thinking. Maybe all my fussing and stressing wasn’t actually doing anything useful. Just burning energy. So I decided to try something, call it channeling that ‘heron spirit’ or whatever. Sounds a bit silly, I know.
What did I actually do? Well, it wasn’t magic. Mostly small stuff:
- I forced myself to just sit still sometimes, literally do nothing for 10 minutes. Harder than it sounds.
- Started paying more attention to little details around me, things I usually ignored. Like the way the light hit the wall, or sounds outside.
- When I felt that urge to frantically do something about the stalled project, I’d consciously stop. Take a breath. Ask myself if action was actually needed right then, or if I was just being impatient.
- Focused on tasks I could control, even tiny ones, instead of stewing about the big stuff I couldn’t.
It felt weird. Unproductive, almost. Like I was giving up. But I stuck with it, just trying to be more still, more observant, less reactive.
Slowly, things started to shift. Not because of some magic heron power, obviously. But because I wasn’t wasting energy fighting things I couldn’t change. My head got clearer. When the project eventually did start moving again, I felt more ready, less frazzled. And the personal stuff? Well, waiting became a bit more bearable. Still sucked, but I wasn’t climbing the walls quite as much.
So yeah, the ‘heron spirit’ thing. It was just about patience, really. About learning to be still and wait for the right moment, instead of thrashing around. Sounds simple, but man, it was a process. Still working on it, honestly. It’s easy to forget when things get busy again. But remembering that bird helps sometimes. Just stand still. Watch. Wait.
